Cairo Dock

Cairo is a highly configurable dock, customizable through several themes ready to download and also allows you to place different applets that offer us different information, such as a specific one for weather. If you want to try it, it is available in Linux Mint software center,

From the Cairo-dock extras page you can drag and drop links to the dock and plugins will be automatically installed . If you are using the latest version , use the 3.4.x plug-ins. This is a pretty feature. You can install plugins for Twitter, RSS , Web search, Calendar and more.

Docky

Docky is a dock that works very well, is simpler than the previous ones, it does not support so much personalization, but it makes it works very well and it’s pretty fast. It may be changed to Panel mode (using the whole screen wide) or 3D Background. Also it has docklets to include in your dock and options to auto-hide. You can drag-and-drop icons to the dock and they’ll be added as launchers :

sudo apt install docky

What do I like ?

It’s lightweight

Themes included are good

Settings dialog box

What I don’t like ?

it doesn’t displays a point for opened windows

Docky icon is always present.

AWN

The project seems to be abandoned but it could be installed on Linux Mint. It’s very fast and easy to configure , also it’s easy to add new launchers dropping application icons to the bar. Some features seem to fail (like settings and “about” windows).

DockbarX

It is a lightweight dock too , and pretty customizable. It has its own configuration app , and could run as a panel . When you start , it’s just a little bit difficult add new launchers , but its a very good dock.